A 48-year-0ld Boone man with a decades-long criminal record hid under a hay baler and near a partially constructed meth lab before officers found him Saturday night, leading to a foot chase and gunfire that left the suspect in the hospital with serious wounds, police said

Boone County Sheriff Ron Fehr said the man, Brian Lee Johnson, is suspected of stealing a truck owned by Shirley Stevens, the owner of the home where Johnson was hiding in a garage. Officers were involved in a high-speed chase two weeks ago in which Johnson is a suspect, Fehr said.

Johnson’s criminal record goes back to the ’80s and includes arrests for drug offenses, domestic abuse and theft in Polk, Boone, Marshall, Poweshiek and Story counties, Fehr said, citing state records.

Johnson, a felon who also was wanted on a parole violation on a previous drug charge that sent him to a state prison in 2009, awaits charges from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. He lived in the house, 827 S. Division St., part-time with Shirley Stevens and her son, Jeff, said neighbor Dick Wilson.

Johnson remained in a Des Moines hospital Monday.

Jeff Stevens, also a felon with a history of drug and domestic-abuse charges, was arrested and was in Boone County Jail Monday afternoon on $20,000 bond.

Sheriff Fehr said Stevens also was charged with attempting to hide Johnson in the garage where the meth lab and several methamphetamine ingredients were found. “Stevens was saying Johnson wasn’t around,” Fehr said. “He wasn’t very cooperative.”

Stevens also faces drug charges, including felony conspiracy to make meth, and being a felon in possession of a gun.

Deputy Gray ordered Johnson out from under the hay baler, then Johnson fled, Fehr said. Gray was able to detain Jeff Stevens while two Boone officers chased Johnson.

Police officers Sgt. John Wiebold, 32, and officer Korie Barber, 29, chased Johnson through the yard and eventually fired multiple rounds at the suspect, DCI reported. Barber had tried to subdue Johnson with a Taser, but it didn’t work, and Johnson then aimed a gun at the officers

DCI declined to disclose how many rounds each officer fired. Fehr declined to say where Johnson was hit or how many times

Wiebold has been with the department for 10 years, and Barber five years.

The dead-end street where the shooting occurred was quiet Monday afternoon. Wilson, the neighbor, tended to his goats and other livestock.

‘The only one that was hurt was that son of a bitch,” Wilson said, referring to Johnson. Wilson was just getting ready for bed Saturday night when “all hell broke loose.” Bullets went through two of his van windows and splintered a rail on the wheelchair ramp his son uses. Neighbors found a bullet in a shower and in a bedroom.

Blood remained splattered on the street outside the house at 827 S. Division St., where officers went at 10:48 Saturday night with an arrest warrant for someone thought to be staying there, Boone County sheriff’s office reported. After the Boone officers began talking to Johnson, he ran. When the Taser didn’t stop him, Johnson turned and pointed a handgun at officers, DCI reported.

As the two officers chased him through the yard, the man turned and pointed a handgun at them, authorities allege.

Neither of the officers was injured during the incident, and both have been placed on administrative leave, which is departmental policy..

Gary Wisecup, who lives next door to the property where the shooting occurred, on Sunday said it seemed like police had been in his neighborhood more often the past couple of weeks. But he didn’t know what happened Saturday.

“It all happened so quick,” he said. “I was sitting out on my deck and I had two police cars there pull in.”

He said he heard voices shouting, then gunshots, then more voices, then more shots.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Boone Police Department and the Boone County sheriff’s office are investigating the incident.

A previous shooting involving a Boone police officer occurred in October 2010, when Officer Rod Thompson shot and killed a knife-wielding man inside of a Hy-Vee grocery. The officer first used a stun gun on the man, Gerald “Gary” Beals II, but it didn’t stop him.

The Boone County attorney’s office cleared Thompson, saying he was justified in using deadly force to stop Beals.